Two important lists to follow of tweets/reporting on the ground in Egypt:
https://twitter.com/#!/list/avinunu/reporters-in-egypt
and:
https://twitter.com/#!/list/JacobPark/tweeting-from-egypt
from my recent tweets:
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Um, "mercenary thugs" RT @
stratosathens: CNN reports that pro-Mubarak forces using molotov bombs set fires around Cairo museum
#Jan25 #Egypt
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LOL RT @
mattthomas: The frenemy of my frenemy is my anonymous source.
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#egpyt after nearly loosing it, the protesters have made a comeback..taking back large parts of tahrir
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A crowd on top of the 6th of October overpass has stayed since the pro-Mubarak lines broke and is throwing molotovs at the Tahrir protesters
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RT @
RamyRaoof: we are gaining control again over Tahrir Square and expanding, and defending our demo from their attacks.
#jan25 #egypt
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@
NickKristof Seriously? Can you journalist types just report the news. Our President has made his position and feelings clear. Stop it.
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All reports by phone from Tahrir say the revolution has held its ground and pushed thugs back
#egypt
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Tree blazing on outside egde of sq next to apartment block where guardian's @
hackneylad lives. he safe chez moi
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Those thugs are nothing but the ugliest face of poverty.. Hunger makes humans lose humanity itself. Blind & cruel they become.
#jan25 #egypt
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@
Bill_Gross how is it illuminating? this: "pitched battles between government supporters and opponents" is scarily misleading
#Egypt #Jan25
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A standoff of at the Egyptian Museum, where stones and petrol bombs are being thrown. A fourth man has died tonight, via gunshot.
#Egypt
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Google, Facebook & Twitter break practice of corporate silence & speak out forcefully against Egypt's internet blockade
http://bit.ly/f55rDZ
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Unbelievable, everyone of the hypocrites is ignoring the real reasons behind this revolution and repeating "Muslim Brotherhood".
#Jan25
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Bilal Fadl appealing again to the Army to protect generation of facebook from generation of camels and horses
#jan25 #Egypt
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@
joanieStudio I meant to say she never stopped being Egyptian (she went back frequently) and *controls* the 'official' family history :)
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Bilal Fadel, Egyptian journalist, warns that preparations underway for a new attack on protesters still in Tahrir Square now
#Jan25 #egypt
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Egyptian State TV is only showing footage of the mob from the day time.Don't see the camels trampling over people or the molotov cocktails.
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Egyptians survived brutality from police, escaped prisoners, and looters-They think we'll give up confronting a bunch of hired thugs?
#Egypt
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Al Jazeera speaking to journalist who says that NDP thug parliamentarian Magdy Ashour paid mercenaries to attack 50 protesters at Zakazeek.
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The large caliber shots people hear around Tahrir are army. Either tanks or APCs. Can't tell why they're occasionally shooting in air.
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If protesters hold on, they've maintained the most important symbol of their movement. As long as they're in Tahrir you can't ignore them.
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@
joanieStudio She is *extremely* Egyptian, and also the family's living history repository.
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@
joanieStudio She first left Egypt under strained circumstances in 1946...
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My 86-yr-old aunt Safeya called from her apt in WashDC, she wishes she cld be in
#Cairo to march (the woman can barely walk)
#Jan25 #Egypt
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Can hear Umm Kolsum from a nearby apartment while logging video from the past few days. Goosebumps.
#Cairo #Jan25 #Egypt
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Pro-Mubarak rioters are now driving a bus intoa crowd of anti-government protesters in Tahrir.
#egypt